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The purpose of this study is to measure the role foundations are playing in empowering minority communities to contribute to the nation’s cutting-edge public policy dialogue. This report analyzes grantmaking of the nation’s largest private foundations and California’s largest private and community foundations. It finds a tremendous disparity in giving among these foundations to minority-led nonprofits.

It is economically imperative for the University of California to meaningfully address the vast minority populations that reside in the state. A diverse career staff provides a supportive environment for UC’s diverse student population. The data for UC’s current workforce composition clearly shows that minorities and women face difficulty in penetrating the upper levels of management; career path issues must be further researched so that appropriate changes result.

Each year the Greenlining Institute submits to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) a report highlighting utility contracting to minority businesses. In 2006, the six largest public utilities contracted more than $1.5 billion to minority-owned businesses in 2006. This report card is an analysis of this contracting for minorities overall and to each individual minority group. The report also highlights contracting site areas that require further attention and action on the part of the utilities and the CPUC.

This is Greenlining’s third annual report on board of director diversity at major banks and reflects board of director diversity in 2006. Greenlining’s report addresses a key diversity leadership issue at America’s twenty largest banks. Although the board of directors is only one segment of the banking management structure, it is a publicly available indication that most of America’s banks have a long way to go to meet even President Bush’s cabinet diversity. Presently, one-third or five of the President’s fifteen cabinet members are minorities.

Only 39 percent of African Americans in California live in a home that they own, compared to nearly 50 percent for African Americans in the rest of the nation. This report finds that the seven major lenders studied originated only 48 home loans to very low income African Americans in California. This report provides a wide range of comparisons among the seven major institutions in terms of number of conventional home loans made to African Americans by income and by overall percentage of loans made. Greenlining created an overall score that incorporated the rankings of number and percentage of loans made to African Americans of all incomes and low income African Americans in California.

This study looks at why foundation funding for minority-led nonprofits is so low and how the diversity practices and policies of foundations affect giving priorities. Findings are based on interviews conducted with foundation leaders and nonprofit executives. Respondents identified several barriers to funding for minority-led nonprofits including: the inability to access foundations; the lack of trust between minority-led nonprofits and foundations; and inadequate resources on the part of many minority-led nonprofits to devote to relationship building with foundation staff.

This study analyzes the giving of the nation’s largest foundations to determine how equitably foundation dollars are allocated across the sector. Greenlining’s findings show that the top fifty independent foundations and the top twenty-five community foundations awarded only 3 percent of total grant dollars to minority-led nonprofits in 2002. These levels are markedly inadequate and illustrate a vast disparity in philanthropic dollars being targeted to organizations that both lead and serve communities of color.

For over 15 years, the Greenlining Institute has issued its Annual Report Card on Supplier Diversity relating to the largest utilities subject to California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) scrutiny. This year’s Report Card focuses on the only six major regulated utilities subject to CPUC scrutiny.

For almost 15 years, the Greenlining Institute has issued its Report Card on supplier diversity relating to the nine largest utilities subject to CPUC scrutiny. Today, we submit to you Greenlining’s Supplier Diversity Report Card for the year 2003.

Removing Barriers, Creating Economic Opportunity

About The Greenlining Institute

Founded in 1993, The Greenlining Institute envisions a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity. We advance economic opportunity for people of color through advocacy, community and coalition building, research, and leadership development. We work on a variety of major policy issues because economic opportunity doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Rather than seeing these issues as being in separate silos, Greenlining views them as interconnected threads in a web of opportunity. The Greenlining Institute is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 94-3173571.